Sheep Tag Community

Here are a few of the reasons i choose SHeeptag over Dota:

1) sheeptag has a larger playerbase
2) more depth/variation/mastery -> skill is more rewarding
3) more develouped and polished map
4) higher skill-limit -> virtually impossible to fully master/can always improve
5) sheeptag constantly has new additions/features to gameplay -> the game elevates every few months
6) most of the legends/old sheeptaggers/cool guys play sheeptag instead of dota
7) Sheeptag is more strategic and requires more ''intelligence''/theory/understanding, in addition to requiring more skill/talent/practice.
8') and, as a result of point 1-7 AND MORE, sheeptag is more fun. WAY more fun.

What's your reason boys? why do you play sheeptag over dota?




I'd also like for someone to explain a phenomenon to me:

the vast majority of the people in our community that has played both ST and Dota (and mastered the basics of both games) chose to play dota. in fact, the ONLY person in the HISTORY of our community (that i know of) who mastered the basics of dota, yet chose to play sheeptag, was shoop. EVERYONE else either switched partly or fully to dota.

you can write a whole page namedropping everyone who swapped from sheeptag to dota. this started way before st "died", and has continued up til today.

what could explain this?

and since most of todays sheeptaggers haven't tried dota -> What would you say the chances are that you would prefer ST over Dota (after a few weeks of learning dota), given the rate of conversion we've seen so far?

@Beer

you complained that dota didn't have a ranked system before. they implemented that months ago. what are your current thoughts on dota?

As for the game itself it's a no brainer. Sheeptag is complete **** compared to DotA, even if you look at how the game was when it actually was good (before turkbrain map, before zero delay, before every aspect of the game being mastered by most people) it was still not even close.

What made me prefer ST over Dota years ago was 100% the community. A relatively small, close-knitted and extremely competitive community with this great culture and these great personalities was way better than anything the Dota community could offer. Nowadays I can't understand how you can enjoy ST. Almost all the funny people has left and we're stuck with boringass nerds like Jean-Mii. The competitive flame-culture is gone and has been replaced with a lick-system and abuse. The game itself has lost all its charm and offers barely any mastery any longer.

But ye if some people still enjoy it I'm happy for them. It's great seeing this game still being alive when pretty much everybody thought it would die in 2009-2010.

I have played both games, and I can honestly say I find sheep tag more fun, and better. My knowledge of Dota 2 isn't that great I admit but I have a pretty good understanding of, yet I still think sheep tag is mor fun.

i play sheep tag over dota because i played and became good at sheep tag first, and there is a good community that comes with it!

This is why we don't invite you to skype calls. You're literally buzzkillington, lmao.

Here is what a skype call with you might sound like:


*nmcdo dies to beer*
Beer: ROFL sit the **** down nmcdo
Nmcdo: xD fu beer nubcake
Tollison: Beer stop being so critical, nmcdo was most likely already seated prior to your move. Nmcdo, don't retaliate with frivolous nonsensical flames as it lowers the quality of this conversation!
Nmcdo: ....
Beer: ....

XDXPX)

The Dota community is more of a country there is tons of people to play with
The Sheep Tag community is more of a family everyone has to get along if you want to play

Playing with the same people makes the game more interesting as you learn the skills of each player allowing you do increase your own skill by knowing what that person may or may not do. You do not get this in Dota as much as you do in Sheep Tag.

i play sheep tag over dota because...there is a good community that comes with it!

you can make communities/different clans/groups of friends within the dota community. for instance, we used to play Dota inhouses exclusively in clan WhiS for around a year, with the same 30-40 people shuffling in and out of games. it was a nice little family where everyone knew eachother

you should also remember that the majority of the "core st players" switched over to DotA. in other words; most of the people that made the STC unique/fun historically => switched over to Dota. a few of the bigger names include exa, cow, chaise, amir, gosusheep, magoo. you can add roughly 40 names (all of which contributied to making the STC so fun), and you have a list of the people that are partying Dota2 on steam. the vast majority will be active players. a tiny fraction of the names worth mentioning include cele, itio, shroomy, r3v-fre3k, thefrozenarmy, polar, Borja, Shoefactory, Koala, Katshuma, Enstek, Etc.

And those are just the people who are on Dota2. This doesn't include the even bigger list of sheeptaggers who switched over to dota on Wc3 (azzuro, cookie, twix, tazz, wizardman, etc) before.

in short -> DotA offers your exactly what you like in ST, as well as the option to play with 9 people you've never met before. not only are there mass communities you can join in dota 2 (like Cele did), but you can play with the exact same people which the STC consituted of for the past 10 years.



other than that; funny that people talk about "the community made me st!!", while in reality => you get to know the community after you decide to spend mass time in Sheeptag, not the other way around. besides, this is sorta like the kids that think they found their "soulmate" when they hook up with a random girl, or the patriot who thinks he randomly got born into the best city of the best country in the world (hi shoop). im sure most of you'd feel the same way regardless of what game/community you decided to spend years in.

the blabber seems more like rationalization for devouting so much time into sheeptag, and continuing doing it, when there are OBVIOUSLY better alternatives such as dota2 ^^

@amir
That doesn't change the fact that Dota is a MOBA and Sheep Tag is a TAG. Completely different genres.

I mean hell while were at it lets REWIND 5 YEARS
I prefer Halo 3 over Dota. Halo 3 is better and bigger than Dota. Halo 3 has more tournaments and is in MLG. Halo 3 has endless amounts of custom games to play and different game modes to master. Halo 3 has a better ranking system than Dota. There is no reason to play Dota when Halo 3 is already so much better and has a solid foundation with a great company producing and updating the game. There is so much you can master in Halo 3 that you just can't get in Dota. For all these reasons Halo 3 is a better game than Dota and you should just leave Dota and play Halo 3.

@amir
That doesn't change the fact that Dota is a MOBA and Sheep Tag is a TAG. Completely different genres.

I mean hell while were at it lets REWIND 5 YEARS
I prefer Halo 3 over Dota. Halo 3 is better and bigger than Dota. Halo 3 has more tournaments and is in MLG. Halo 3 has endless amounts of custom games to play and different game modes to master. Halo 3 has a better ranking system than Dota. There is no reason to play Dota when Halo 3 is already so much better and has a solid foundation with a great company producing and updating the game. There is so much you can master in Halo 3 that you just can't get in Dota. For all these reasons Halo 3 is a better game than Dota and you should just leave Dota and play Halo 3.

I don't know how big Halo is but maybe you don't want to play on a console and as for PC, Dota is the biggest game in the world. http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/04/10/dota-2-overtakes-league-of-legends-as-most-played-pc-game-of-2013-claims-report/

As for Halo being in the MLG, so is Dota. Dota also has its own tournament "The International" which has the biggest prize pool out of any gaming tournament. http://www.esportsearnings.com/tournaments

Skillwise it's a no brainer. No FPS can get close to the mastery and teamwork required in Dota, this is obvious to anyone who have played both at a decent level (which you haven't).

But ye Amirs arguments are stupid. Some people prefer the concept of sheeptag over the concept of Dota. If people didn't prefer different conceps, everybody would play the same game.